Grace is a $100 Bill

It may seem strange for me to equate grace with money. You may find it a little bit blasphemous, but let me tell you a story of something that happened to me over 10 years ago…

The Great Recession had just swept through the United States and very few people were untouched by its insatiable and greedy presence. My own real estate and hard money businesses had been eaten alive and after letting go over 80 percent of my workforce, closing down the office, and moving everything to the basement of a house I could no longer afford, it was difficult to see God’s grace.

Jaclyn and I had three small children, all under the age of three, our accounts had been wiped out, all my properties, which had been leveraged to the hilt, were in foreclosure, and the loans I had made to other investors were in default. I had painted myself into a corner and felt the room closing in on me.

It was then that God urged…

Patience is a Virtue

Have you ever waited for your children to climb into the car, get into their seats, and put on their seat belts? It’s a simple task, one that adults do automatically and without much thought. However, it’s a laborious, drawn-out process for a child, wrought with distractions and bickering over who gets what seat, all […]